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<span class="top">The Book of Hosea</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">8:1</td>
<td>Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.</td>
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<td class="v">8:2</td>
<td>Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.</td>
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<td class="v">8:3</td>
<td>Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.</td>
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<td class="v">8:4</td>
<td>They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.</td>
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<td class="v">8:5</td>
<td>Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?</td>
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<td class="v">8:6</td>
<td>For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.</td>
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<td class="v">8:7</td>
<td>For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.</td>
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<td class="v">8:8</td>
<td>Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.</td>
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<td class="v">8:9</td>
<td>For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.</td>
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<td class="v">8:10</td>
<td>Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.</td>
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<td class="v">8:11</td>
<td>Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.</td>
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<td class="v">8:12</td>
<td>I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.</td>
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<td class="v">8:13</td>
<td>They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.</td>
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<td class="v">8:14</td>
<td>For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.</td>
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